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Stove Grate.

Patentd May 17, I870.

N. PETERS. PHER, WASNXNGYQN, DXC

REUBEN 'SOLLIDAY, OF ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No.'103,098, dated May 17 1870.

STOVE-GRATE.

The sche dule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same I, REUBEN, SOLLIDAY, of Allentown. in the county of Lelngh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain Improvement in Grates,'of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of the employment, in a grate having a vertical front and horizontal base, of asliding bottom which may be easily inserted orwithdrawn, so that, when the bottom is burned so as to be useless, it may be replaced by a new one.

In the accompanying drawings-- Figure 1 is a front view of the grate.

, Figure 2 is a top view of the same. 7

Figure 3 is a front view'of the grate showing vertical extension of sliding bottom.

A A are the vertical bars composing the front of the grate, across the lower ends of which is a. hori- 'zontal bar, A.

The end bars A reach in a vertical line to the back part of the grate, and are flanged at a on their inner sides, to receive the flanged sliding base 13. a v

G is the front,,and 0 the end of said slide, which is inserted, as shown .in fig. 1, .below the horizontal bar A I am aware that grates have been constructed which have one or two of the middle bars of the base removablefor the purpose alone of cleaning the grate, without reference to their renewal when destroyed by fire, as the entire bottom of the grate is as liable to .be burned as anysingle spot. In this case, if the grate- {barsshould be burned out. on either side of. the sliding or removable bars, the insertion of new ones would he of little advantage. I The present invention is not designed to be used simply for the purpose of removing the ashes from the grate, though tbr suchpurpose it is applicable, but. as providing a means of rendering a grate, otherwise useless, as good as a new grate, and at much less cost and labor, as the sliding bottoms can be made and sold separately.

The slide may advantageously be made to form part of the front of the grate, which is liable to be burned out near the base. The exactdirection. in which the front or base-bars run is not. material.

, I do not claim, broadly, sliding bars-in the base of a grate, and I particularly disclaim the subject-matter of the patent of S. J. Kelley, of October '20, 1863; out

I claim- 1. The removable "rate-base, consisting of the entire bottom, exclusive of the surrounding frame, when constructed with flanged 'sides, in combination with the cm'respondingl y flanged base-bars of the said frame. as and for the purpose specified. v 2. The combination of the flanged sliding base and vertical extension thereof, as-shown in fig. 3, for the purpose set forth.

. I REUBEN SOLLIDAY. Witnesses:

Tnos. A. COXNOLLY, A. A. OONNOLLY. 

